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Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Societe Pour L'etude De L'architecture Au Canada SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ARCHITECTURE IN CANADA SOCIETE POUR L'ETUDE DE L'ARCHITECTURE AU CANADA Volume/Tome 7 NumberIN umero 1 - 2 April/avril I 98 I 2 VICTORIA For more than half its history Victoria was a or at least Americanized. Warren Heywood Williams typical western frontier town, prostrate before executed Victoria commissions from Portland, the harsh economics of the boom-and-bust cycle. Oregon. When Thomas Hooper came west in 1882 he In an age when architecture was a major medium of brought with him the latest eastern fashion for institutional propaganda we can easily find the work of Henry Hobson Richardson. Richardson evidence of this in the history of its buildings. developed a very rugged "native American" style Thus the combination of stodgy conservatism in which combined many historical influences within the choice of building materials with precosity a predominantly Romanesque or arched style. At in the use of ornament produced architecture of the same time, experiments with new techniques unusually high quality. The image of prosperity and materials in Chicago, particularly the was important to customers and creditors alike. elevator and iron brought in a vogue for taller Brick and stone buildings represented substantial and more "open" facades. In the meantime, investment, were a good insurance risk, and con­ political events solidified the east-west connec­ stituted a public display of faith in the future tion. British Columbia joined Confederation in of the community. Therefore Victoria's early 1871 and the railway reached the coast in 1885. architects and entrepreneurs built in brick and Victoria enjoyed a brief flirtation with the granite. Dominion "mansarded" style, identifiable by the roofed top floor. By 1912 the design of the The stages of the city's growth are evident in Union Club by a 'Frisco architect was an anachron- the varied styles and changing profile of the ism for with local architects such as Hooper and urban landscape. The earliest commerical core Rattenbury the English Edwardian influences come fronted the Inner Harbour and grew up along Wharf of age. Styles are purified. Real historical and Bastion Streets during the 'Sixties and 'Seven-precedents are evident in Chateau Style buildings ties. Chinatown, north of Johnson Street, reached or Georgian Revival shop fronts. its present form during the 'Eighties and the newer commercial area centering on the Government Finally, recent trends in developing civic aware­ Street spine developed during the 'Nineties. ness have again brought to life Victoria's rich and colourful architectural heritage. The A succession of architects have left their mark redevelopment of Bastion and Centennial Squares on the city; each has represented a phase of with their radiating malls and pedestrian walkways development as well as the tastes of his age. and the designation of historic areas and buildings Sir James Douglas founded the Hudson Bay Company's for preservation indicates a concern with con­ trading fort at Victoria in 1843 but it was only serving the human scale and quality of human life. with official colonial status, conferred in 1849, that specialized administrators such as B.W. Walking Tour Old Town Victoria, copyright Heritage Pearse, surveyor of the townsite, and Herman Otto Tour-Maps Tiedeman, engineer and architect, moved in to organize the colony. Tiedeman was an able prac­ titioner in the High Victorian Eclectic tradition, a decorative idiom which allowed the designer to draw from any number of historic styles and amal­ gamate these in a single building. As applied ornament tended to be "catalogue ordered" it was imported from San Francisco; thus the American flavour of early Victoria's street frontage. The favourite west coast style of these years was the Victorian Italianate. Following the gold rush and incorporation of the City in 1862 Thomas Trounce, builder, and John Teague, architect, popularized this style - no doubt in response to the tastes of Victoria's immigrant American mer­ Cover Illustration: chant class. Teague dominated Victoria's commercial architectural scene well into the Rattenbury sketch proposal for 'Nineties but because the trade axis remained Inner Harbour and C.P. Hotel, north-south even intrusions tended to be American 1903. 3 EMPRESS HOTEL [1907-1929] 721 Government Architect: F. M. Rattenbury polygon turrets relate the structure to Ratten­ bury's Parliament Buildings facing the Empress on the south side of the harbour. The vaguely Second Empire roofline paraphrased the Dominion Post Office (which faced the Empress from the north side of the harbour until its destruction in favour of the present block in 1969) and the first Cus­ toms House in the Mansarded Federal Style. The architect's selection of this apparently eclectic The Empress Hotel first opened its doors on array of elements was not a haphazard one. Togeth- January 21st, 1908. As early as 1903 two promin- er they associate the structure with the cultures ent citizens, Capt. J.W. Troup and Harry G. Barnard,of English and French Canada and their union within had mooted the idea of a large tourist hotel in the Dominion. The Picturesque composition captures Victoria and had interested the Canadian Pacific the flavour of the scenic beauties of British Col- Railroad in the project. At a time when a rail umbia as Van Horne had intended--while at the same bridge from the mainland to Vancouver Island with time particularizing the hotel's location within Victoria as the western terminus of the railroad the local landscape of the Inner Harbour. (Victoria was still being promoted, this was a timely ven- v1as often called Canada's "gateway" or "portal" to ture. And despite the fact that the bridge never the Pacific. It may not be fortuitous that Ratten­ materialized, the site, convenient to the terminus bury chose the Romanesque twin-tower gateway form of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and also the as the central facade block of the Empress). C.P.R. ferry dock, proved a lucrative choice. The necessary acreage was reclaimed from what was pre­ Rattenbury's original unit, comprising the central viously an expanse of tidal mudflats. The city block of the present-day structure, contained one granted the railroad the land together with gener­ hundred and sixty rooms. Demand was such, however, ous tax concessions. that north and south wings of 74 and 100 rooms respectively were added in 1910 and 1913. In 1912 The Empress is one of a long line of Chateau Style the Ballroom and Library were added--this by W.S. railroad hotels originating in William Van Horne's Painter who also supplied the designs for later dream of a chain of picturesque hotels commanding C.P.R. hotels the Banff Springs Hotel [1912- the choicest views in the Rockies and Selkirks. 1913] and Chateau Lake Louise [1912-1913]. In Stylistically it is directly related to a series of 1929 two hundred and seventy three new guest rooms predecessors designed for the C.P.R. by Bruce and suites were completed under the direction of Price: the original Banff Springs Hotel (1886-l888),J.W. Orrock, Engineer of Buildings for the C.P.R. the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City (1892), and The conservatory was added to the ballroom in the the Place Viger Hotel and Station in Montreal same year. (1896-1898). Rattenbury's design is a development of Price's work (which itself remained very close The general contractor for the original construc­ to Richardsonian influences) and the original arch­ tion was J.L . Skeene but the foundation engineers, aeological sources, namely the Medieval Loire E.C. and R.M . Sharkland were brought out from chateaux. Within the vocabulary of this style, Boston to design the foundations and while placing Rattenbury provided a building uniquely suited to the piles for the main block they also drove those both function and location. Flat wall surfaces, a for projected future additions in order to pre­ picturesque broken roofline, the concentration of serve the structure from damage in the future pile detail in the roof architecture, neo-Gothic dormers driving vibrations. Mrs. Hayton Reid, wife of and the overall emphasis on verticality recall the C.P. Hotels' superintendent, was the chief Price's work in the Chateau Frontenac. Many ele­ interior decorator and directed the furnishing of m~nts, however, evidence Rattenbury's personal the hotel--much to Rattenbury's horror. ~1gnature. The stylized Tudor arches of the porch 1ntroducing the Elizabethan flavour of the lobby From Victoria, A Primer for Regional History in and the quatrefoils along the cornice appear in Architecture 1843-1929. Martin Segger and Douglas local domestic buildings such as the 1903 Maclure­ Franklin Watkins Glen, N.Y.: American Life Founda­ Rattenbury Lieutenant Governor's Residence. Domed tion, 1979. p.p. 138-39. 4 VARIETY AND DECORUM Style and Form in the Work of of the enterprise, the high quality of construc­ Samuel Maclure 1860 - 1920. tion and modernity of design, F.M. Rattenbury's James Bay monument was unique.7 Samuel Maclure was born in lR60 at New Westmins­ ter, British Columbia. His father was a Royal Hpwever, the severe neo-classical plan, somewhat Engineer and surveyor. Maclure studied painting softened by American Richardsonian Romanesque briefly in Philadelphia but rarely travelled detailing, had already been pioneered in Victoria after that. He read architecture while a tele­ by the work of architect Thomas Hooper in institu­ graph operator with the Esquimalt and Nanaimo tional and commercial architecture. The Centen­ Railroad on Vancouver Island, then entered an nial Methodist Church (1891), Metropolitan Metho­ architectural practice with Richard Sharpe of dist Church (1890), Protestant Orphanage (1892) New Westminster in l8R7 and moved to Victoria in and the Metropolitan Building (1903), for instance, 1892.
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